Netscape 6, Part VI: Object-Oriented DOCJSLIB 1.2 - Doc JavaScript

Netscape 6, Part VI: Object-Oriented DOCJSLIB 1.2

This column is the seventh part of our series on Netscape 6. In this column we'll present another approach to browser-independence and apply it to DOCJSLIB 1.1. The modified library is DOCJSLIB 1.2. The new approach is to encapsulate browser-dependent functions as methods of a dedicated class, one per browser type. This scheme is based on the object-oriented design methodology. We'll bring you up to speed on understanding and applying the object-oriented terminology, buzzwords, and syntax. We'll teach you how to define methods and properties in a subclass, and how to inherit methods and properties from its superclass.

DOCJSLIB 1.2 supports the same three methods as DOCJSLIB 1.1 . The principles of DOCJSLIB 1.2 remain the same: hiding implementation details from the scripter, API-like (Application Procedural Interface) function interfaces, and browser-independence. The advantage of DOCJSLIB 1.2's browser independence over that of DOCJSLIB 1.1 is in its limited use of if-else statements (down to a single one). We demonstrate DOCJSLIB 1.2 with our traditional Tic-Tac-Toe game.